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Some industry watchers think American could turn to hometown partners for help. Rumor had it that certain members of the billionaire Bass family of Fort Worth might take a large friendly stake in the company, as they did to protect the Walt Disney Co. from a raid several years ago. Or Crandall might borrow money to create an Employee Stock Ownership Plan to achieve the same goal...
...number and variety of instruments Byrne employs to stretch these songs to their limits is staggering. In addition to the expected bass, keyboards, electric guitar and saxophone, instruments like the batteria, conga, campanita, guira, huataca, bongo, sencerro, coa, timbal, caixa, surdo, pandiero, mandolin and even two types of batas (iya and itotele) are used. Needless to say, it is clear that Byrne has spent time and research finding the right New World instruments to perfect Rei Momo's South American flavor. His use of Portuguese and Spanish lyrics in such cuts as "Make Believe Mambo" and "The call...
...record of straight-ahead, stripped down rock and roll in which her throaty, deep. haunted voice (she may remind you of a more melodic. female version of Rod Stewart) overpowers the thin instrumentation of her band. You will only listen to her passionate voice, not the rather boring bass, drums and guitar behind...
Other notable songs include "Brave and Crazy," which mixes a funky bass beat with rough, pleading vocals and "You Can Sleep While I Drive." a ballad not unlike Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car." In "Skin Deep." a savage song about superficial love. Etheridge proves that no one can sing "baby" quite like...
...Randy Bass was one of the most successful foreigners to play in Japan, but his lack of wa nonetheless did him in. A towering left-handed batter who once played for the San Diego Padres, Bass hit 54 homers for the Hanshin Tigers in 1985, and that year helped his team win the Japan Series. Then in May 1988, the idolized Bass left Japan to be with his son, who was undergoing brain surgery in the U.S. The team slumped, and Bass's absence offended many Japanese; they could not forgive him. The Tigers cut him and then quibbled over...